Mission: Thoughts to change Humanity’s “rendez-vous” with destiny

The Trim Tab builds on Bucky Fuller’s Critical Path’s statement that one out of 10,000 persons is aware of what is going on around us that is 99.99% invisible; if you think about it, 1/10,000 accounts for less than 700 persons (7 billions crew members on spaceship earth, divided by 10,000, equals 700)!

Engaging in raising humanity’s awareness will build “critical mass” that in turn will leverage humanity on Bucky’s critical path vision… that’s the plan.

In our finite world, our own space ship earth, energy and water are the only physical things of real importance.

Vision: A Journey Towards The Truth

On a journey towards the truth, the little and the big things that are raising our awareness, and could empower each one of us to leverage the changes in the course of events that a leadership starved Humanity has unwillingly engaged into…  Full steam ahead was the Titanic modus operandi; maybe, right now, is one of those times when “stop and think” might work better than “full steam ahead”? Let me know your thoughts.

Why that name? “The Trim Tab”:

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller Tombstone in Mount Auburn Cemetery, New England.

“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary, the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.

It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.

So I said, call me Trim Tab.”

-R. Buckminster Fuller, Barry Farrell (Playboy Interview, Feb 1972)

The Trim Tab name was humbly chosen for this website in honor of R. Buckminster Fuller; our hope and drive is to raise your (Dear Reader) awareness so you will in your own time & terms chose “to pick up something that needs to be done & attend to it” and by your effort, steer humanity towards conscious evolution, away from Neanderthal.

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller rests in Mount Auburn Cemetery. His tombstone reads: “Call me Trim Tab.”

What will you find here?

• Blog Post
  • Fred thoughts about the economy, money, finance, trends, ecology (as in relationships & interactions between living things), leadership, business, evolution and the shape of things to come… plus a wealth of other topics that one way or another impact your lives and are related with our destination. Fred will provoke your thinking.
  • Calibration, not just trivia! Numbers, references, back of the envelope calculations & powerful words that leverage & count. TheTrimTab.com helps you to locate where we are at on the map of what is going on, in spite of the confusion, cacophony and noise. Knowing your position and what is important with precision is the first step in finding out what you can do & what levers to apply pressure on:
    To understand where you are at and what you can do, this section is for you.
  • Books: Fred loves books & shares his passion here; books allow to take some distance from the ambient noise of ever an increasing, easy to access confusing mass of data & information.
  • China: because he lives in China, Fred has a lot to say about it & about doing business with China; posts are oftentimes presented as a comparison, opposition or shocks between cultures, but not always.
• The Bucky Call, Critical Path study materials.

• A Sense Of Urgency, Sales Partners’ 4 times a week calls.